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Subject: Slipspace isn't physically and technically possible


Posted by: tsassi2

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Slipspace is NOT a faster then light technology, its a wormhole. If you take a piece of paper, imagine its the galaxy, and pretend a little grain of sand is your ship, getting from one end to the other naturally will take a long time.

If you bend the paper, you cut the distance in half.

A wormhole is not a Faster then light technology, its a portal, more or less, a gatway or shortcut across the universe. You're still traveling at the same speed as always.

It's not technically a portal either. Slipspace is a 11 dimensional place where laws of normal physics don't apply. That's the reason you can travel faster than light in there. It's existence is unknown and it's a 50/50 chance that it exists or doesn't exist.


Contact Harvest describes it as nothing more then a wormhole, or space shortcut. Having played the sh1t out of Portal 2 recently, it has become imbedded in my mind that dimensional shortcut=portal.

But I have seen no evidence to suggest it is an 11 dimensional plane. If it were, the human mind would likely melt because it would be unable to comprehend it, and time travel would be done all he time (with time being dimension 4).

  • 04.22.2011 5:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: tsassi2

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Slipspace is NOT a faster then light technology, its a wormhole. If you take a piece of paper, imagine its the galaxy, and pretend a little grain of sand is your ship, getting from one end to the other naturally will take a long time.

If you bend the paper, you cut the distance in half.

A wormhole is not a Faster then light technology, its a portal, more or less, a gatway or shortcut across the universe. You're still traveling at the same speed as always.

It's not technically a portal either. Slipspace is a 11 dimensional place where laws of normal physics don't apply. That's the reason you can travel faster than light in there. It's existence is unknown and it's a 50/50 chance that it exists or doesn't exist.


Contact Harvest describes it as nothing more then a wormhole, or space shortcut. Having played the sh1t out of Portal 2 recently, it has become imbedded in my mind that dimensional shortcut=portal.

But I have seen no evidence to suggest it is an 11 dimensional plane. If it were, the human mind would likely melt because it would be unable to comprehend it, and time travel would be done all he time (with time being dimension 4).


Cryptum stated that slipspace is all the dimensions folded into 1. though i think it said 11 dimensions i can't remember the exact number.

  • 04.22.2011 5:34 AM PDT

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Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Posted by: tsassi2

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Slipspace is NOT a faster then light technology, its a wormhole. If you take a piece of paper, imagine its the galaxy, and pretend a little grain of sand is your ship, getting from one end to the other naturally will take a long time.

If you bend the paper, you cut the distance in half.

A wormhole is not a Faster then light technology, its a portal, more or less, a gatway or shortcut across the universe. You're still traveling at the same speed as always.

It's not technically a portal either. Slipspace is a 11 dimensional place where laws of normal physics don't apply. That's the reason you can travel faster than light in there. It's existence is unknown and it's a 50/50 chance that it exists or doesn't exist.


Contact Harvest describes it as nothing more then a wormhole, or space shortcut. Having played the sh1t out of Portal 2 recently, it has become imbedded in my mind that dimensional shortcut=portal.

But I have seen no evidence to suggest it is an 11 dimensional plane. If it were, the human mind would likely melt because it would be unable to comprehend it, and time travel would be done all he time (with time being dimension 4).


Time travel is impossible by the way. Paradox theory.
You can travel to the future, but you cannot in no way get back.

Einsteins theory of relativity states that there is an infinite amount of alternate realities and universes. So slipspace from this is possible, just about finding the right reality i guess.

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Posted by: opogjijijp
So in other words when you "slip-space" you would be at least 1,000 years old in about an hour and about 70 in 3 sec according to science.

That would only apply if they were going very close to the speed of light in our universe(.9999999999999 C). There's no indication of time dilation from slipspace travel(except for that one instance in FS)


Not sure if someone has said this or not, but opog is partially right. He forgot to mention that time inside your vehicle doesn't "speed up" as you approach the speed of light. "Time" outside the vessel passes much faster. Therefore 1000 years would pass outside the spaceship but only the amount of time the trip takes would pass inside the spaceship. I.E you'd only age as long as the trip takes.

Edit: Cameo creme is correct. Only traveling to the future is theoretically possible. As well, it's theorized that quarks and such time travel often, but it happens so fast that we can't measure it; along with wormholes on earth and stuff.

[Edited on 04.22.2011 6:00 AM PDT]

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Posted by: opogjijijp
So in other words when you "slip-space" you would be at least 1,000 years old in about an hour and about 70 in 3 sec according to science.

That would only apply if they were going very close to the speed of light in our universe(.9999999999999 C). There's no indication of time dilation from slipspace travel(except for that one instance in FS)


Not sure if someone has said this or not, but opog is partially right. He forgot to mention that time inside your vehicle doesn't "speed up" as you approach the speed of light. "Time" outside the vessel passes much faster. Therefore 1000 years would pass outside the spaceship but only the amount of time the trip takes would pass inside the spaceship. I.E you'd only age as long as the trip takes.


This happened on an episode of stargate Atlantis. An ancient ships was travel very very close to light speed, so to them they hadn't been traveling for too long but they had actually been going for thousands of years.

  • 04.22.2011 6:00 AM PDT
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Posted by: tsassi2

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Slipspace is NOT a faster then light technology, its a wormhole. If you take a piece of paper, imagine its the galaxy, and pretend a little grain of sand is your ship, getting from one end to the other naturally will take a long time.

If you bend the paper, you cut the distance in half.

A wormhole is not a Faster then light technology, its a portal, more or less, a gatway or shortcut across the universe. You're still traveling at the same speed as always.

It's not technically a portal either. Slipspace is a 11 dimensional place where laws of normal physics don't apply. That's the reason you can travel faster than light in there. It's existence is unknown and it's a 50/50 chance that it exists or doesn't exist.


Contact Harvest describes it as nothing more then a wormhole, or space shortcut. Having played the sh1t out of Portal 2 recently, it has become imbedded in my mind that dimensional shortcut=portal.

But I have seen no evidence to suggest it is an 11 dimensional plane. If it were, the human mind would likely melt because it would be unable to comprehend it, and time travel would be done all he time (with time being dimension 4).

We can't comprehend more than three spatial dimensions but it doesn't cause brain melting either. Otherwise I could kill you by getting you to watch this video. What you will see in it is indeed a six dimensional cube, hexaract. I couldn't find the 10D version but you probably got my point.

Time is indeed the fourth dimension that we can measure. otherwise it's the 11th dimension. But slipspace having time as a dimension doesn't mean it works same way as it works for us. There is no law that forces physics work exactly the same way in every universe.

Difference between slipspace and a portal/worm hole is that you spend time in slipspace and that you jump in and out of it. With portal you just jump trough it. They are quite different.

  • 04.22.2011 6:34 AM PDT

Everything in relative in the universe, therefore a straight line from A to B is not the fastest route.


Imagine the distance between A and B is 1000 Light-years. Traveling between those two points in a straight line can never take me less than 1000 years. Of course all sorts of relativistic effects come into play at that speed that we wont go into.


Lets say however that I make a short cut between the two. The distance I travel is only 1/10,000,000 of the actual distance, meaning I can travel it in only 48 minutes at C.

Of course this is an extreme example, and my basic maths may be off but the point is there.
Slipspace is a shortcut between two points that gives me the ability of travel FTL relative to normal space.

  • 04.22.2011 6:40 AM PDT

ever read a wrinkle in time? about the same idea.

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